It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.

It’s been a while since we’ve set up this blog, but with no further adieu, we will commence reporting now - 19^th July, 2009. We will start with a few countries and of course, the world, but eventually we will try to cover all the countries listed and add on more to the list. Anyone is free to write, just mail me at global.bestworst@gmail.com and we’ll just communicate with you some details before you can go ahead and write. Meanwhile, we’ll be searching on our own as well. We do hope you enjoy reading our “news”. We do hope you appreciate that articles will not be objective, but opinionated.

As usual and as any other day on the globe, a lot of things have been happening – the comedies and tragedies of the recession, the swine flu pandemic, Michael Jackson’s freedom from Earth and the usual bout of poverty, war, disease, crime and corruption.

As Charles Dickens has phrased it in his Tale of Two cities, the saying probably stands immortally steady to describe any given day on our planet:

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”

Ah, yes, as the great writer puts it – it was the BEST of times, it was the WORST of times. This is how we will commence. In other words, this is how we roll.